Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-20
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Daily eagle
SHAVING A DEAD NAN.
A BARBER WHO WILL NEVER RE-
PEAT TIE OPERATION.

A Widow who Wasn't satisGed-An
English Dudes Remonssrance - A
Colored Barber Badly Scared by q
Corpse--A Ten Dollar Job.
That's all right If IFS only hair cut; Just
sit up little straighter. If you wanted
shave I'd have told you to tako Bills chair
over there. couldn't shave you-you look
like that fellow, only you're warmer and not
SO white"
Like what fellow"
"Liko a stiff / shaved about two weeks
ago. The minute you'd shut your eyes I'd
get so nervous I might make You Us dead as
he is. The resemblance would be SO strong
couldn't stand it,"
That's funny"
GFunny! Well, if you'd ever shaved O
corpse you wouldn't think it Was very funny.
Ny heart jumped into my throat when you
stepped into that door. is over two weeks
since Two shaved that dead man, and he's
been right with me ever since. Every time
close my eyes | can sec hes glaring right at
me. His faco is as plain before me as yours.
Night and day 1 see it. Ny skin creeps every
tiI,lo | touch q razor. Every timo 1 touch
anything cold | sAuGder. / can ieel MS cold,
cla:nny skin Yet. I viii never forget the
horrible sensation cf the moment | touched
his face with tao razor. felt [ was commit
ting Sacrilegc. l felt ruilty-but OF what
could nos answer. If live to be 1C0 years
Old l Il never forget that experience-and lii
never shave dead rlan again"
SHAVED DOZENS or DEAD MEN.
ooh, pshaw! Charlie. you're foolish" said
hn riaaT-A 1uas hui. Of
men and never saw ghost. I'd rather shave
stiff th2n 4 crank any day, for these req
sons: You get paid moro, they don't bleed if
You cut 'em and they never gIurnble at your
work. I've been paid as high as SO and
never less than So. That Is tho regular price
and won't take less. I've seen lots OF funny
things in this end of our business. Less than
two wcehs ago | went to a house rot 600
miles from Washington park. had finished
the job and was packing my traps when tho
dead mans wife, mean widow-came ill.,
She walked over to the corpse, examined the
face closely, and was turning away with a
sort Of satisfied loo!;, when suddenly she gave
Shrek, and cried like = professional
y. hats the matter, mcdaale? [ asked
" by, you-yOu mean thing. You've
p-p-D-parted his h-hair on the wrong s-side-
boo! hoor
Another time | went to an aristocratic resi-
dence on Michigan avenue; | won't tell You
the number because it wasn't very Ions. ago
The dead mans brother was in the room with
Iae-cnc OF these alleged English dudes, Won
know, who talk through their nose and lisp
Ike n woman. Tho first stroke | made on
tho neck OF the corpse caussd his brother talre
q conniption.
that 10 lisped 'Alv-aw donchuno that's
not right. You mUsn't shave the neck up;
you must shave it down. II vow shave it 10
the Lair viii grow M ard curl the wrong
way, don't you know, ard lie can never part
it nice again like i. is now
~ looked at the man and sav he was in
earnest, and tried 10 keep my facc straight,
b. it WIS pretty hard work; The idea of
shaving corpse SO lie could part his whis-
kers nice af5crwa-dl
"a fanny thing happened once when l was
working in Pit;sburs, Ia. Ono rir1t rich
iron man died on OAKLAND avenue. 22d a col
orcd barber went to f., him lip. When he
had shaved one side Of Tie face it WIS neces--
sary to turn the corpse over. ! Suppose there
WIS son,o cir il tie lungs but anyway, when
ho turned him over the corpse gave an awful
Croan. The econ dropped the razor and let
out 4 yell thGt brought the whole household
70 the SPOT on the run. Before anybody Get
there tho darby wcs cut of tic house and
down tho avenue 90 if the old boy wes after
him, and at every jump he Let out Il screecL.
When one Of the men went Into tic reo,n lie
saw the raEor and nearly h0lf Of tie left ear
Q; Ike c9r.so lying CA tie loor. Tao razor
had just happened to STRIFE it when The caIky
dropped = AID ran. 4 doctor was sent for,
who aawed the ear or, and then he s.nt for
mo. / finished shaving tho maM end left tho
house With q crisp 500 bill in my pocket" -
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